My rules for sleepovers and/or sleepover parties, thank you. Please do not tell me at the last minute that your child needs to be up and out of the house by 8:00 a.m. the next morning for basketball practice, a soccer game, et al. I would not have planned a sleepover if I knew I would be responsible for making sure your child got a good night's sleep. If it is a sleepover party, we put a starting time for a reason. Please don't tell me the morning of the party that your child will not be able to make it, due to a game a half an hour prior to the start time, until almost an hour and a half after the start time. Please do not call me that morning and tell me you have planned dinner with a relative that night and your child will not be able to make it until three hours after the start time. But, your child does not want to miss the movie. Let me just pull out the newspaper and pick a new movie AND a new theater, so we can accommodate a dinner I should have known about a week ago. A birthday is once a year, in the party cases, and I think it should be important enough to get to, get to on time, and stay at for the allotted time. Oh, and please don't call me at 9:40 a.m. the morning after and tell me you need to pick your child up at 10:00 a.m. since your family is going somewhere. I'm sorry, it was a sleepover, your child just woke up about twenty minutes ago since he stayed up all night. I haven't even fed him breakfast yet. In fact, he is still laying in his sleeping bag, with the rest of the kids, on the family room floor watching cartoons. Thank you for your anticipated cooperation in this matter. Let's everyone get on board with the etiquette of sleepovers.